Wire fence.



B. A. BECKER.

WIRE FENCE. AYPLIOATION FILED APR. 19, 1912.

Patented Aug. 19, 1913.

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WIRE FENCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 19,1913.

Application filed April 19, 1912. Serial No. 691,920.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD A. BECKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lamberton, in the county of Redwood and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Wire Fence, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in wire fences, and the object is to provide fence posts with improved novel means for fastening fence wires thereto.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a fence showing how the wires are secured to one of the line posts. Fig. 2 is a right hand side elevation of the lower portion of the fence post shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a modification of the lower portion of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 1 designates one of the line posts and 2 the wires of a wire fence; the wires may be either plain, or barbed, flat or round, single or twisted together of several wires.

The posts are preferably made of concrete, so as not to rust, corrode or decay either in the ground or above the ground, where moisture and other elements are fast destroying ordinary fence posts.

Each line post is provided at one side with a suitable number of slightly resilient flat hooks, 3, each of which has its lower end portion 4: curved and molded into the com crete, and its upper end portion formed with a tooth 5, which is preferably struck from the metal in the hook and projects downward and inward almost to the side of the post, so that the wire can only be inserted sidewise downward past the tooth by applying force enough to spring the hook slightly outward. The ends of each wire are secured to corner posts (not shown) by hooks or fastening means of any suitable kind, but I prefer the kind of hooks which I have shown and described in my application filed on August 5, 1912, Serial No. 713,304.

In Fig. 3 is shown how the hook 3 may be placed close to the corner of the post, so as to rest upon the bottom of the mold while the post is being molded or formed.

In building the fence, the posts, being first molded and properly dried, are secured in the ground; each wire is then secured with one end to one of the corner posts, and after placing the wire in the hooks 3 along one side of the fence, either above or below the teeth 5, the other end of the wire is secured to the next corner post; the wire is then stretched by any suitable means and method; if the wires have not already been forced downward below the teeth 5 of the hooks 3 before the stretching took place, they may be forced down afterward below said teeth.

If the fence is to be taken down, a suitable wedge-pointed tool may be inserted between the post and the hook 3 so as to spring the hook sufiiciently outward to permit the removal of the wire upward past the tooth 5; the ends of the wire may thereafter be loosened and the wire rolled up in the usual manner. If any of the wires become slack, as is often the case with fence wires some time after the fence has been built, one end of the wire may be detached from the corner post, and after being stretched may easily be secured again. Such stretching will not affect the wire of the same height from the ground in the next side of the fence which by being shorter may not need any stretching. The peculiar fastening of the wires and their independent fastening to the corner posts thus enable each strand of wire to be stretched independently of all the other wires, and in stretching each wire it will slide in the hooks 3 so that the entire length of a wire at either side of a fence may be stretched simply by operating at one end of it; and there are no staples to either drive in or pull out in building and in taking down or in repairing the fence.

What I claim is:

1. In a wire fence, the combination with a post, of one or more hooks fixed upon one side of the post and forming an upward resilient arm with a down-ward tooth at the side adjacent to the post.

2. In a wire fence, the combination with a post, of one or more resilient arms fixed upon one side of the post, the free end and adjacent portion of each arm standing in a longitudinal direction of the post and being provided near its end With a tooth at the In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of tWo Witnesses.

EDWVARD A. BECKER.

side adjacent the post, said tooth arranged Witnesses: and adapted to engage and hold a fence Wire OTTO J. SOHMID, in position between the post and the arm. J. J. VVEIR.

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